SYDNEY: Australian rugby league great Reg Gasnier, the outstanding international centre of the 1960s, died yesterday at the age of 74.
The former St George Dragons player died in a Sydney nursing home where he had lived for several years, the Daily Telegraph said.
He had been ill for a number of years after suffering a stroke.
Gasnier played 39 Tests for his country and scored 26 tries.
He also played 125 games for the legendary St George Dragons club side, who won a record 11 consecutive premierships between 1956 and 1966.
He was forced into retirement from the game at the age of 28 with a broken leg suffered while playing for the Kangaroos on the 1967 tour to England and France.
Gasnier made three Kangaroo tours -- 1959-60, 1963-64 and 1967-68, the last one as captain-coach -- and he also played in the 1960 World Cup final. AFP
